Lesbos holiday cottage: Drota, Akrasi

Drota village

There are no roads into this remote village! You park under the shady plane tree and then walk! Our cottage is about 75 yards in. Although we have no garden per se you can sit directly outside the house as the path widens here creating a lovely area to sit and relax. In the summer, the few permanent inhabitants move down to live by the sea so you may well have the place to yourselves! Other people in the village will be those who, like us, fell in love with the place, bought a house there and did it up so there’s a wonderful sense of community spirit as everyone’s looking for the same thing- peace and quiet in a beautiful setting. The village has two churches (one is tiny!) and all the houses are old so it has retained its original character. In winter months, a brook runs under the little wooden bridge as it makes its way down the valley to the sea. Why not take a look for yourself on Google Earth? (see below)

How to get to Lesvos

There are charter flights direct to Lesvos from London and Manchester (on Thursdays and Saturdays). Alternatively, you can fly into Athens and take a ferry (most of which travel overnight so you arrive the next morning) or hop on another flight from Athens to Lesvos (lots of them).

Search on Google Earth!!!

If you look on Google Earth, Drota appears clearly midway between Plomari and Vrissa and is marked as Drota, Akrasi, Lesvos view. Our house is in the small hamlet due north of the beach by a big bend in the road, well before the hairpin bends.